SYBIL'S HIT-OR-MISS HISTORIES! "Inventions That Failed"... the Pasta-Mega-Combine.

..... The town of New Palermo, New York had a large Italian population of immigrants, proud and loyal to their Mediterranean heritage. Although they were hardworking and loyal citizens in their new home of America, everything was colored by their traditions of family and fine food. When the Sons of Italy Gentlemen's Fraternal Organization combined their old-world cuisine with their new-world inventiveness, they created the world's first "Pasta-Mega-Combine"..... a giant factory capable of making and distributing tons of pasta instantly to homes in a seventy-mile radius from the center of town. Sadly, the creators hadn't taken into consideration the vagaries of weather, seasonal changes, and (most destructive of all!) flocks of birds becoming entangled and soiling the spaghetti! Adjusting the great machinery for ziti, vermicelli, and cannelloni only made the situation worse... as a matter of fact, the food critic from the NY Times visited and pronounced "the farfalle is far-fetched, the fusilli is silly, the rotini is rotten, and the gnocchi is noxious!".... Six months later, the entire facility had been reconfigured to produce merino wool yarn for expensive men's suits..... inexplicably, they always smelled like garlic.....

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